Example sentences of "and [vb -s] off [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say , ‘ A Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta … ’ and with that he drops his book and stomps off the tee . |
| 2 | This action brings pin 3 of IC2 down to near zero and shuts off the drive to the switching transistor TR1 . |
| 3 | Sites being explored include parts of the Moray Firth in Scotland , Cardigan Bay in Wales , and Lyme Bay and waters off the north Norfolk coast , the Isle of Wight and Lundy Island in England . |
| 4 | A safety valve senses changes in water pressure and cuts off the supply if there is a danger of flooding . |
| 5 | This senses the current flowing in the live and neutral wires and cuts off the electricity if there is a fault anywhere in the circuit . |
| 6 | The Rambler goes on and on , and gets off the point . |
| 7 | The chimpanzee then pulls out the grass stem and picks off the termites with its teeth , smacking its lips with pleasure . |
| 8 | What 's needed is a conclusion that pulls together the threads of your argument and rounds off the answer in a satisfying way . |
| 9 | If a fire starts in a room ( and most hotel fires do ) , the smoke leaks through the door , rises to the ceiling and sets off the alarm . |
| 10 | Go for well-designed china that delights the eye and sets off the food . |
| 11 | In their place a gang of county council officials in yellow plastic jackets comes once a year to do God knows what , a little genteel scraping , and disappears off the face of the highway for another twelvemonth at least . |
| 12 | The usual X-ray source consists of a metal anode which is bombarded by a beam of high velocity electrons , and gives off the characteristic X-ray spectrum of the metal concerned . |
| 13 | The tyre then begins to slide and scrubs off the excess speed which could n't safely be lost with a more drastic pull on the brake . |
| 14 | Having argued this far Lorentz has to go all the way and he was forced to conclude that there will be no American M until Hollywood goes and until ‘ independent companies allow their directors to do away entirely with actors , and ( which is the only sensible way to manufacture movies at all ) pick types and faces off the streets ’ . |
| 15 | As the linker needle comes back towards the knitter , the stitch is in the hook of the linker needle and comes off the machine needle . |
| 16 | both arms and comes off the camber |